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Babe Ruth (Not That One) Stole Baseball Players’ Identities, U.S. Says

George Herman Ruth, a Tennessee man with the same full name as the Yankees slugger, used the names of retired and dead players to commit fraud, prosecutors said.

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Babe Ruth in 1931. A Tennessee man with the same full name as the Hall of Fame slugger used the identities of former baseball players as part of a fraud scheme, federal prosecutors said.
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Ousted Fire Chief in L.A. Claims Mayor Bass Retaliated Against Her in Legal Filing

The former chief, Kristin Crowley, claimed that Los Angeles leaders retaliated against her for publicly blaming them for refusing to properly fund the Fire Department.

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Kristin M. Crowley, then the chief of the Los Angeles Fire Department, speaking at a news conference in 2023.
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Border Patrol Agents Show Up in Force at Newsom Rally

The armed and masked agents assembled outside a museum where the governor was speaking in what Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles called “a provocative act.”

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More than a dozen Border Patrol agents turned up in downtown Los Angeles on Thursday outside a museum where Gov. Gavin Newsom was holding a news conference.
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Trial Begins Over Trump’s Deployment of National Guard in L.A.

A three-day trial opened Monday in state officials’ challenge of the legality of the deployment, which followed protests over immigration raids.

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The Trump administration deployed nearly 5,000 federal troops to Southern California in June.
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Trump Raids Help Stir a Political Reversal for Karen Bass

The mayor of Los Angeles has emerged as a leading voice of the city’s resistance to the Trump administration after facing criticism for her handling of the wildfires.

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Mayor Karen Bass has called on the Trump administration to end federal immigration raids in Los Angeles.
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